Matchpoint: Tennis Championships PS5, PS4 Gameplay Looks Okay

Let, first service.

Tennis games are so hard to execute, because you need a humongous library of animations to cater for all kinds of different shot types, heights, and positions. Matchpoint: Tennis Championships, a new PlayStation 5 and PS4 title published by Kalypso, is taking on the challenge, though. This is being billed as a simulator rather than an arcade rally-‘em-up, and in this first gameplay footage it looks, well, okay.

We’ve been burned before so we want to get our thumbs on the sticks before coming to any firm conclusions, but the animations look decent in the short clips above, and seem to be blended fairly well. There’s a bit of warping and we’d argued the overall flow is still a little slow, but overall it looks fairly realistic and responsive.

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